Re: IDS 9.x stability on Solaris vs Linux

I agree with Fernando. Having worked inside the Informix support organization for a long time my experience is that the overwhelming majority of bugs are generic anyway. I am also convinced that Linux is a well supported and stable platform. I see no reason to choose Solaris only because Informix is developed there. As far as I know qa tests for the current development are run on a couple of platforms every night. Porting does not introduce new bugs in the first place. It often uncovers hidden generic bugs and makes a product more stable on all platforms. Michael Fernando Nunes wrote: > Bronson Tubb wrote: > >>If I am not mistaken, Informix was (and is still?) developed on >>SPARC/Solaris, meaning everything else is a port and subject to errors >>inherent in every porting task. No glaring errors mind you, just little >>issues that indicate the product just works better on the platform for >>which it was originally developed. The same holds true for Oracle. >>Anyone heard if the Informix developers are getting shiny new IBM >>p-series S80's to play with? >> >> > > > Cannot agree with this. > I'm not saying it's not developed in Solaris. But there are specific > Solaris bugs as there are other platform bugs. And there are generic > bugs. The QA is made in all available platforms. > > So, you can have specific Linux bugs as you can have Solaris specific bugs. > > I agree that using a platform with more customers (like Solaris) can > have advantages. The probability of having someone hit the bugs first > than you is higher in widespread platforms like Solaris than in other > less spread platforms like Tru64. And it's usual to have the first > generic bug's fixes in the most used platforms. > > regards. > > -- === Michael Mueller ================== Tel. + 49 8171 63600 Fax. + 49 8171 63615 Web: http://www.mm.kay-mueller.de http://www.planets.kay-mueller.de ====================================== sending to informix-list